Memorial details

Memorial type
Board / Plaque / Tablet
District
Mid Suffolk
Town
Coddenham
County
Suffolk
Country
England
Commemoration
17th Century Wars (1600-1699)
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
4723

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Current location

St. Mary's Church
Church Road
Coddenham
Mid Suffolk
Suffolk
IP6 9PZ
England

OS Grid Ref: TM 13270 54161
Denomination: Church of England

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Description
Classical pediment, columns and base; coat of arm below base.
Inscription
HERE RESTETH THE BODY OF CAPTAINE PHILIP BACON, SECOND SON OF NICHOLAS BACON OF SHRUBLAND HALL ESQUIRE, ON THE BODYE OF MARTHA BINGHAM/ THE ONLY CHILD OF SIR RICHARD BINGHAM, KNIGHT, OF THE AUNCIENT FAMILIE OF THE BINGHAMS/ OF BINGHAM MELCOMBE, IN THE COUNTIE OF DORSET, WHICH SAID CAPTAIN BACON,/ IN THE TIME OF KING CHARLES THE SECOND, WHEN HIS MATTIE WAS IN HIS LOWEST CONDITION,/ GAT OVER INTO FLANDERS. SOON AFTER, BY THE FAVOUR OF SR CHARLES BERKLEY, AFTERWARDS/ LORD FITZ-HARDEN, GETTING INTO THE DUKE OF YORK'S TROUPE, TO SHOW HIS NEW MASTER A/ LITTLE OF HIS BRAVERY, PICKERING (SIC) BEFORE MARDIKE, HE WAS MET BY THREE FRENCHMEN,/ FROME WHOME HE RECEIVED TWO SHOTT, ONE INTO THE SHOULDER, & THE OTHER ON THE/ FOREHEAD; THAT BULLET ON THE FOREHEAD HAD KILLED HIM, HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR A WHIPCORD/ HATBAND, WHICH MADE IT STICK, WHILE IT WAS TAKEN OUT BY THE DUKE HIMSELF, THE/ MARK OF WHICH HE BROUGHT TO THIS PLACE. UPON THIS, THE DUKE TAKING HIM INTO/ HIS FAVOUR, AFTER THE BATTLE OF DUNKIRKE, MADE HIM CORNET OF A TROOPE OF HORSE,/ WHERE WITH HIS SACRIED SOUERAIGNE, AND DEARE MASTER THE DUKE, HE SUFFERED TOO/ MANY PERILS & HARDSHIPS TO BE HERE RELATED. SOONE AFTER HIS MAGESTIES HAPPIE/ RESTAURATION, HE CAME INTO ENGLAND, AND GOEING TO VOLUNTIERE IN THE FIRST EXPED/ -SDITION WITH SR JOHN LAUSON, WHEN THOSE HONERABLE ARTICALES WERE GAINED WITH/ ALGIERS, HE WAS MADE LEIUTENNANT TO CAPTAINE WYE IN THE ASISSTANCE; IN THE/ NEXT EXPEDITION, TO THE STRAIGHTS, HE WENT/ LEIUTENNANT TO CAPTAIN ALLEN, NOW SR THOMAS ALLEN, IN THE ST ANDREW; AT/ HIS RETURNE, HE WAS MADE CAPTAINE OF THE OXFORD FRIGGOT OF 28 GUNNS, WITH WHICH HE FOUGHT/ BOARD BY BOARD WITH THE WEST FREEZLAND, A DUTCH FLAGG-SHIP OF 50 GUNNS,/ WHILE HE TOOKE HER FLAGGS, WHICH REMAYNE IN SHRUBLAND HALL AT THIS DAY;/ FOR THIS HE WAS MADE CAPTAINE OF THE BRISTOLL FRIGGOTT OF 52 GUNNS, AND/ UPON HIS RETURN IN HER WITH SR JEREMY SMITH OUT OF THE STRAIGHTS AS SOON AS/ COULD POSSIBLY AND GETTING OUR, BEGAN THAT FATALL BATTLE OF THE FIRST OF JUNE/ ANNO DNI 1666, IN WHICH HE, BEING THE FIRST THAT DISCOVERED THE DUTCH FLEET, IN/ OBEDIENCE TO COMMAND, HE FOUGHT THAT DAY WITH MUCH HONOUR, AND THE NEXT DAY/ UNTILL THREE IN THE AFTERNOONE, AND THEN CAME THAT FATALL BULLETT WHICH TOOKE OFF/ HIS THIGH, BOTH THE THIGHTS OF THE MASTER OF HIS SHIP, AND THE HEAD OF A COMMON / SOULDIER, BY WHICH HE HONOURABLY ENDED THIS TRANSITONE LIFE, TO THE GREAT LAMENTATION BOTH OF KING & DUKE, AND ALL THAT KNEW HIM; HIS SHOP HAVEING VERY LITTLE OF HER MASTS & RIGING LEFT, SOONE AFTER LEFT THE FIGHT, BRINGING HIS/ BODY TO HARWICH, AND THE SHIP WHEN EXAMINED BY CAPTAINE DEANE THE KING'S/ THEN BUILDER THERE, (BESIDES THE LOSS OF HER MASTS & RIGING,) HAD A HUNDRED/ AND EIGHTY SHOTT IN HER HULL, THREE OF THOSE BULLETTS WHICH WERE TAKEN OUT/ OF HER, BEING GIVEN BY THE SAID CAPTAINE DEANE TO SR NICHOLAS BACON, REMAYNES/ IN SHRUBLAND HALL AT THIS DAY; HIS BODY BEING BROUGHT FROM HARWICH TO/ IPSWICH BY WATER, HAVING ALL FUNERALL RITES DONE HIM BY MOST OF/ THE CHIEFE GENTLEMEN OF THE COUNTYE, WITH THOSE OF THE CORPORATION, THE / MILITIA OF THE TOWNE, AND A TROOPE OF THE KING'S HORSE, HE WAS CONDUCTED/ THROUGH YE TOWNE, & FROM THENCE TO HIS PLACE, WHERE WEE MUST LEAVE HIM/ IN HOPES OF A GLORIOUS RESURRECTION.
Inscription legible?
yes
Names on memorial
Bacon, Philip
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Commemorations
  • 17th Century Wars (1600-1699)
    Total names on memorial: 1
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 1
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: rank, surname, year died, regiment, place of death, forename, manner of death, age, relationships
    Order of information: Undefined
Components
  • Plaque
    Measurements: height 80", width 51"
    Materials: Marble
Listing information
  • CHURCH OF ST MARY
  • Grade I
  • This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England. View list entry
  • More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
  • Historic England
Condition
Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A

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